By Ryan Dombal
on November 29, 2010 at 11:05 a.m. EST

After releasing fouralbums'worth ofdemos last week, Atlas Sound/Deerhunter leader Bradford Cox was hit with copyright-police e-mails by Sony Music, which deleted three of the four volumes of his Bedroom Databank series. The Sony e-mail-- copied and pasted on Cox's site-- claims, "The specific reason for the removal was: unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copyrighted sound recordings owned or exclusively distributed by Sony Music." This is especially curious because, last time we checked, Atlas Sound are signed to Kranky and Deerhunter are signed to 4AD, neither of which are associated with Sony. A call in to Sony has yet to be returned.

By Larry Fitzmaurice
on November 22, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. EST

Since its inception, Deerhunter's blog has been a venue for frontman Bradford Cox to flex his generosity, giving away tons of free material from both his main band and his solo project, Atlas Sound. Today, Cox is offering Bedroom Databank Vol. 1, a collection of Atlas Sound tracks recorded at home between August and November of this year, as a gratis download. It includes covers of Kurt Vile's "Freak Train" and the Bob Dylan/the Band track "This Wheel's on Fire"; that's the zonked-out cover art above. You can download the whole thing here, and peep the tracklist below. UPDATE: Some may have noticed that "W.A.B. II" was credited in Bradford's blog post for contributing "maracas, other vocals" to Bedroom Databank Vol. 1. The mystery contributor is Bradford's roommate's cat, who is awesomely named Weekend at Bernie's II.

By Larry Fitzmaurice
on November 5, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. EDT

Photo by Erez Avissar

Deerhunter recently made a pit stop at the studios of Spinner's "The Interface" performance series, performing faithful renditions of Halcyon Digest cuts "Desire Lines", "Fountain Stairs", and "Memory Boy", as well as a one-two punch of "Helicopter" and the Jay Reatard tribute "He Would Have Laughed". Check out the performance below.

By Tom Breihan
on October 29, 2010 at 3:50 p.m. EDT

When Deerhunter played Portland's Wonder Ballroom last night, frontman Bradford Cox broke out an acoustic guitar, and the band played a faithful cover of Scott Walker's 1969 classic "30 Century Man". Not too many people in indie rock are brave enough to take on a singer as iconic and distinctive as Walker, but Cox is nothing if not brave.

By Pitchfork
on October 19, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. EDT

By Ryan Dombal
on October 13, 2010 at 5:05 p.m. EDT

Deerhunter played a show at Washington, DC's 9:30 Club last night and NPR Music was there to record the whole thing in high quality. The setlist included newbies like "Desire Lines", "Helicopter", and "Fountain Stairs" from their recently BNM'd album Halcyon Digest along with old favorites. Listen here.

By Tom Breihan
on September 29, 2010 at 5:10 p.m. EDT

Superstar DJ Diplo has teamed up with the Montreal producer Lunice to remix "Helicopter", the floaty BNM'ed single from Deerhunter's also-BNM'ed new album Halcyon Digest. The Diplo/Lunice version, which you can download above via the Mad Decent blog, makes ample use of all the empty space in the original track, filling it with with twerked-up synth beeps and warm ambient hums.